WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. FEBRUARY
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Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. (5. February 1918)

SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. (5. February 1918)

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists. (5. February 1919)

The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". (5. February 1924)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States. (5. February 1937)

Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain. (5. February 1939)

World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. (5. February 1941)

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. (5. February 1945)

The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. (5. February 1946)

Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. (5. February 1958)

A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. (5. February 1958)

French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. (5. February 1962)

The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. (5. February 1963)

Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. (5. February 1971)

Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. (5. February 1972)

Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. (5. February 1975)

The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ. (5. February 1976)

Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. (5. February 1985)

Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. (5. February 1988)

Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (5. February 1994)